Starting from Square 1
So the house is upstairs and on a spot I can work on it easily. This thing was a beast to move upstairs. So glad it's there, but realized that it makes the room smell like basement. It stinks. The house was in a basement for decades, so that makes sense, but the mildew/mouse/dust stew is pretty strong. So I decided since it's all unfinished wood I'd prime it. I hate priming. But I had some Zinsser Mold, Mildew, & Odor Control primer from a bathroom project earlier this year and I put on Eli Roth's "Thanksgiving" then "The Nun" and attempted to get the wood in a better place. As you can see below, I didn't quite get to every room, and the house is now too high up for me to access the attic rooms. As I painted, I caulked areas that needed it and noticed there was trim and baseboards in some of the rooms but not all. Thankfully there's a box of leftover bits already the right size that came with Hilda that I can finish that up. BUT, I was thinking in terms of if this was a real house, or a stage set, and I have a lot to do before I can even think of the window and door trim. My goal is to get the remaining rooms primed. Do a 2nd coat on all of the ceilings, then I'll start with walls. I'd really like to do wallpaper, in every room and tile in the large kitchen area. Oh, and I'm STILL finding mouse poop as my brush gets in the nooks and crannies. They must have been living large. Hopefully I can do more this week, but if I'm too tired from work, I have a 4-day weekend coming up to keep doing the prepping steps.
Next Items:
2nd coat on ceilings for white "plaster" feel.
Print wallpapers (gothic, definitely arsenic green, etc. and begin fitting them on the walls, and mod podging over them to seal.
Cut, stain popsicle sticks for floorboards. Kitchen will get tile, which will be either from polymer clay, or the mass bulk bags you can buy in miniature stores. There's one near me. Stain flooring, then insert it into room by room.
I'm thinking about rooms. Here is the house, upstairs and I'll label the rooms as I'm envisioning them.
The 1st Floor goes Parlor (it is accessed through a side hinged panel), then BIG kitchen
2nd Floor from left: Library, music room/landing, bedroom, bathroom
3rd Floor from left: Bedroom, Big Game and Gaming room, bedroom
There will be an attic ceiling trap door on in far left bedroom that leads to the 4th floor attic space. That will contain a cursed objects room, a solarium with plants, and a decaying mummy room with a spiral staircase leading up to the square "widow's walk".